1925 the airport Dortmund Brackel was opened with the route Copenhagen-Hamburg-Bremen-Dortmund-Frankfurt/Main-Stuttgart-Zurich and soon after following cities came on to direct flights: Hannover, Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main and Amsterdam.

1928 8,000 take offs and landings and was the second most important airport in Western Germany. Only Cologne was mo...

A small theatre in the near off Dortmund. The owner of the theatre was some years a go the speaker in the Westfalia-Stadion of Dortmund. In the region he is called "Günna" like a popular name in the Ruhr region. His real name is Bruno Knust. His website: http://www.theater-olpketal.de/

Here you can see the public observatory in Dortmund.
The observatory was build in two phases. The library was build in the late 1950th as a buildung of the 1st "Bundesgartenschau". In the middle of the 1970th the "Astronomische Verein Dortmund e.V." (founded 1913) has gone to this building.
In autumn of 1984 the club has opened the new observatory building with a 25 cm mirror tele...